Quotes of Speculation - somelinesforyou

“ Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services. ”

- Henry Ford

“ When speculation has done its worst, two and two still make four. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ Opportunity is lost by deliberation. ”

- Publilius Syrus

“ What shortens the life-span of the existing truth is the volume of hypotheses offered to replace it; the more the hypotheses, the shorter the time span of the truth. ”

- Robert Maynard Pirsig

“ Thy thoughts to nobler meditations give, And study how to die, not how to live. ”

- George Granville

“ If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation. ”

- William Hazlitt

“ If there were no bad speculations there could be no good investments; if there were no wild ventures there would be no brilliantly successful enterprises. ”

- F. W. Hirst

“ Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing from something. ”

- Wilson Mizner

“ I never guess. It is a shocking habit — destructive to the logical faculty. ”

- Arthur Conan Doyle

“ There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can. ”

- Mark Twain

“ A line runs from the meditations of the heart to the words of the mouth. The meditations are not clear to us until the mouth utters its words. If what the mouth utters is unclear or foolish or mendacious, it must be that the meditations are the same. But the line runs both ways… ”

- Richard Mitchell

“ Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honored by the name of "speculation"; but which ought to be called Gambling. ”

- William Cobbett

“ Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one. ”

- Charles de Gaulle

“ No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know. ”

- Woodrow T. Wilson

“ A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs. ”

- Bernard Baruch

“ Speculations and loans in foreign fields are likely to bring us into war… The war-for-profit group has counterfeited patriotism. ”

- Charles Lindberg Sr.

“ Meditation is the soul's perspective glass, whereby, in her long removes, she discerneth God, as if He were near at hand. ”

- Owen Felltham

“ The Stormy life can be braved Only by the heart's sunny Meditations. ”

- Sri Chinmoy

“ Meditation and water are wedded for ever. ”

- Herman Melville

“ Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without. ”

- Buddha

“ The narrower the mind, the broader the statement. ”

- Ted Cook

“ What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one. ”

- Margaret Mitchell

“ That's not without some deliberation here, without question. ”

- Bill Parcells

“ The losses as well as the prizes must be drawn from the cheating lottery of life. ”

- Unknown

“ Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness. ”

- Madame De Rieux

“ Lovers may be — and indeed generally are — enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations. ”

- Lord Byron

“ Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form. ”

- Stephen Nachmanovitch

“ Faith is a kind of betting, or speculation. ”

- Samuel Butler

“ For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation. ”

- Charles Baudelaire

“ In practical life the wisest and soundest people avoid speculation. ”

- George Earle Buckle
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